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The secret to hiring engineers when you pay less than Google
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Sarah Milstein gives some great advice on how to lean into your strengths when presenting yourself to candidates -
Recruitment at Haplo
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A description of how hiring and recruitment worked at Haplo which is full of great suggestions and advice including the Reverse Interview -
Hiring is key to a successful business - so let's ditch outdated practices
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Collaborative Future are helping companies update their hiring processes to bring them into the modern world and make them more inclusive. This article outlines some of the practices they have adopted -
Developing an employee proposition that attracts talent
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Lauren Shufran offers guidance on how articulate the value that you are offering potential employees so that you can hire effectively. -
The Hiring Book
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Attracting good developers to your company is simple. Do the hard work of making your company a decent place to work and then tell people about it. Najaf Ali's book is full of good advice on how to do this.
Interviews
Tips for interviewing candidates and being interviewed
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How can you tell if the company you’re interviewing with is rotten on the inside?
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Charity Majors gives some great advice for interviewees. Essential reading for interviewers too. -
How we interview software engineers at LloydsDirect
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This post helps candidates know what to expect and helps them prepare for their interviews. How do you help your candidates prepare? -
Unpacking Interview Questions
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss analyses a number of interview questions that he uses. Reading this will help you think about what you are looking when you ask your questions and/or what an interviewer might be looking for when ythey ask you questions.
Inclusivity
Advice on how to be more inclusive in your recruitment processes
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Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team
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Gergely Orosz brings together really good advice from a 6 engineering leaders who have successfully hired and retained diverse teams. -
Anonymous Coding Tests Don’t Remove Bias
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Laura Tacho dispels the myth and offers some recommendations for actually removing bias from your coding tests -
“How Do We Hire More Women?”
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Emily Kager gives some great advice in answer to this much heard question -
Your Hiring Process Is Probably Biased
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K. Tierney reminds you that, "Healthy hiring has a simple goal: to enable candidates to show you their best work, so that you can try to assess whether they’ll be able to perform the job responsibilities, and so that they can assess whether they’d like to work with you", and she also provides some great advice on how to achieve this. -
Calling for pay transparency in job postings
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An explainer on why not including salary in job ads has a negative effect on those less well represented in your industry. #PostThePay is focussed on journalism in the UK but all their advice applies equally to a much wider range of industries and countries. -
Gender Decoder: find subtle bias in job ads
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Linguistic gender-coding shows up in job adverts as well, and research has shown that it puts women off applying for jobs that are advertised with masculine-coded language. This site is a quick way to check whether a job advert has the kind of subtle linguistic gender-coding that has this discouraging effect.